Title :
Topographic feature type vocabularies for ontology patterns
Author :
Varanka, Dalia ; Usery, E. Lynn
Author_Institution :
U.S. Geol. Survey, Rolla, MO, USA
Abstract :
Controlled vocabularies for topographic features on the geospatial semantic web are incomplete. A vocabulary for raster-based data is missing. The U.S. Geological Survey is developing controlled vocabularies for topographic data and environmental modeling, including raster data.
Keywords :
environmental science computing; ontologies (artificial intelligence); semantic Web; US Geological Survey; controlled vocabularies; environmental modeling; geospatial semantic Web; ontology patterns; raster-based data; topographic data; topographic feature type vocabularies; Data models; Geology; Geospatial analysis; Ontologies; Semantic Web; Semantics; Vocabulary; controlled vocabulary; geospatial semantics; raster data; topographic data;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1160-1
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350724
